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Three plates from the book
Suomi Kuvissa (Pictorial Finland)
by photographer I.K. Inha, 1895-1896:
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| Snow-clad forest. |
Up, down, round about, everywhere enormous masses of snow, and fantastical snow-men meet the gaze on all sides. The forest has a heavy burden to bear. The young spruces are to be pitied, whilst they so humbly and deeply bow their heads. One could believe they would never more raise themselves. Bat as the sun arises higher and the weather becomes milder, the snowy covering is opened. Thence peeps forth a fresh, sprightly tree-top, and every bough shakes off its snowy bonds.
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| Imatra in winter. |
The accompanying view gives an idea of Imatra, as it is in winter, with its dark rolling waves between snow-clad shores. During last winter the cataract was illuminated by powerful electric lamps and attracted hither crowds of winter tourists. Besides the magnificent illumination spectacle, the rapids also offer the tourist in the wintertime the lovely appearance of their shores sparkling with hoar-frost and manifold ice formations.
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| Snow-clad forest. |
Midwinter is the time of never-ceasing snowstorms. In the forest, where the wind cannot penetrate, the snow falls softly and uninterruptedly, and the snow-flakes rest on every bough, which comes in their way. Everything is lulled to sleep and weighed down by them. The branches of the lofty spruce-firs hang benumbed along the trunks of the trees, the slender birches bow their heads down to the ground, the young spruces are shrouded in purest white, and all shorter vegetation is completely buried under the dense masses of snow.
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